Getty and the City of Los Angeles recently announced the Los Angeles African American Historic Places Project, which plans to identify, protect and celebrate African American heritage within the city. — STAFF, GOOD BLACK NEWS Despite comprehensive efforts over the years to record Los Angeles’ historic places, the city’s historic designation programs, by their own estimation, do not […]
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A North Carolina Artist’s Search for a Lost Sound Uncovered a Dark History | Atlas Obscura
Freeman Vines honors a lost Black life with his ‘Hanging Tree Guitars.’ — Winnie Lee, Atlas Obscura Artist Freeman Vines was captivated for a long time with an unforgettable sound he once heard from a gospel musician’s guitar. At his home near a tobacco field in the small rural town of Fountain, North Carolina, Vines then […]
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African American Miniature Museum Founder and Artist Karen Collins Has”Greensboro Four” Piece Highlighted by Google to Kick off Black History Month | Good Black News
Sixty years ago, four African American college students sat down quietly at a whites-only Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] They received no service, only requests to leave, but they kept waiting for hours. And the next day, they returned and waited again. Within three days of their protest, more than 300 […]
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African Fabrics Connect to Form Quilted Portraits of Black Figures by Bisa Butler | Colossal
Brooklyn-based artist Bisa Butler (previously) uses brightly colored cotton, wool, and chiffon fabrics with bold patterns to piece together quilts featuring detailed portraits of Black people. The materials and themes connect American subjects with their African roots and tell visual stories of history and culture. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Butler is a New Jersey-born African American artist […]
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He Photographed Ferguson. Now Adrian Walker is in The National Portrait Gallery | Riverfront Times
The exhibition has deep roots for Adrian, yet the idea was first inspired by a series of coincidences. A friend recommended that Adrian shoot product photos for OJI Royale in Los Angeles, which makes designer and luxury durags. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] “That’s what I was set to do, but I try to tell stories within all […]
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Christine Chambers, 39, Dies; Her Photos Empowered Actors of Color | The New York Times
As a photographer and a playwright, she helped document the rise of a generation of theater artists who wanted to tell their own stories their own way. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Christine Chambers, a photographer whose pictures of actors of color helped document the rise of a newly energized black theater movement that emerged in New York […]
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Meet 5 Black Women Who Are Making A Splash In The Art World | Essence
Those paintings by Black artists that we see hanging in a gallery or major museum didn’t get there by happenstance. When it comes to the business of art, strong representation is essential for the creatives behind the works we consume. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The talents first had to be discovered by someone with a reasonable amount […]
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Dean’s List: Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys Focus on Collecting African-American Art | Art News
In May 2018, in a buzzing salesroom at Sotheby’s New York, the hammer fell on Kerry James Marshall’s Past Times (1997), a sprawling masterpiece that surveys a contemporary pastoral scene in which black figures are seen picnicking, boating, golfing, and playing croquet. Not long after, the price—$21.1 million, the highest figure for a work by […]
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Found: The Oldest-Known Photograph of Enslaved African Americans With Cotton | Atlas Obscura
The daguerreotype records their faces, but not their names.
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The Black Artists You Should Know at Basel | Paper Mag
The art world’s annual December pilgrimage to Miami for Art Basel is currently underway. The glamorous mega fair and the more than two dozen satellite fairs that exist in its orbit draw tens of thousands of attendees each year. Some go to schmooze, some go to buy, and everyone arrives ready to party. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] […]
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